Biography
There is more than one band called The Silver:
1) THE SILVER make their Gilead Media debut with the album Ward of Roses. A record that is at once extreme and exposed, horrific yet beautiful, Ward of Roses explores anxiety, love, loss, and the matters that make us all too human. From “…First Utterance” to “Then Silence…” the curtain rises and falls on a haunting tableau of human frailty, a romantic and visceral exploration of the dark recesses of the soul.
Featuring members of Horrendous and Crypt Sermon, Ward of Roses marks a decidedly different path for the musical collective. An album that deals in blast beats as much as romanticism, Ward of Roses progresses through movements that draw from black metal, goth rock, and other bleak expressions. V’s soaring clean vocals mingle with cathartic guitars while vocalist Nick Duchemin howls over strident blast passages—often in the same song.
THE SILVER’s ethos alludes to metallurgy. Silver can only reach its intended shape, state, and purpose when hammered, set ablaze, and struck again. As the hymns of Ward of Roses suggest, we are tempered through all of our life experiences and traumas, emerging only after we have leapt through the flames of our personal abysses.
2) Mysterious Finnish DIY outsider band that released two singles and a cassette from 1979 - 1981, which is basically 12-13 year olds making garage rock which sounds like noise rock Shaggs or if SPK went garage. Whether their youthful cacophony was produced by plucking piano strings, rattling wash-tubs or beating a guitar with Barbie dolls, remains a mystery.
"Do You Wanna Dance?" b/w "Popper" was ranked #9 on Johan Kugelberg's Top 100 D.I.Y. singles. He wrote: "A riddle wrapped inside an enigma etc. The band appears to be around 12-13 years old. They hail from Finland where the trail grew cold a long long time ago. Maybe upon the release of the record. Pussy Galore without post-modern baggage. 'Love Theme from the Snails' as performed by SPK. 12 year olds virtually destroying a recording studio captured on tape, not once but four times."
Their long-lost cassette album, The Last of the Mohicans, was unearthed in January 2015 when Finland's Broadcasting Company YLE made an investigative online multimedia-article about the enigmatic band. Within days another news story revealed that a few cassettes have surfaced from a record collector's archive. More copies have subsequently emerged from various locations throughout Finland.
members: Harry Angel, Calamity Jane, Steve Mink.
3) Driven by charging bass lines, lit by jarringly harmonized guitars, and suffused with plaintive, floating vocals, The Silver plays songs that pound and flicker, that ebb and explode.
London-based, via San Francisco, Brooklyn and back again, The Silver is compared to bands like Eels, The Jam, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, The Helio Sequence, Elvis Costello, The Cure, The Smashing Pumpkins and early U2.
Heavily influenced by by post-punk, ska and alternative rock, 'Waveforms' - the debut album from The Silver - deals variously with the nature of solitude, the art of self-medication and the anxiety of passing time.
Driving, volatile and vaguely melancholic, the album is an outstanding work of post-punk noir; of hard-edged ghost-rock.
The Silver was previously incarnated on the West coast as silversphere - with the haunting 2006 release ‘Songs of Longing & Loss’ hailed by fans as ‘an enigmatic, atmospheric gem.’ A move to the East in 2008 marked a shift to a harder-edged, uneasier sound - of which 'Waveforms' is the culmination.
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